Blogger Stereotypes: Are You One?

Blogging, for those who can’t find enough friends to complain to on Facebook! Let’s face it, we’re bloggers. We blog. We’re part of what larger society regards as a bunch of odd balls. I suppose it’s possible that some of us are odd balls, loners in their mom’s basement, or crazy people. (yes, I’m looking at you) But then, there’s the rest of us. I’ve blogged long enough to see that although we’re all bloggers, there are sub-groups among us. Stereotypes, if you will. Are you one of them?

The “Humor” Blogger: I figured that if I’m going to offend some of my blogging friends, I might as well start with myself: There’s lots of humor bloggers and none of us are ever as funny as we think we are. I know that when I, and my fellow humor bloggers, have penned a sarcastic masterpiece of social commentary and with an exaggerated flourish and the sound of angels in our heads, triumphantly hit Publish, we sit back with a satisfied smile waiting for our readers to fawn upon our comedic genius in the comments. What really happens is: check stats, sigh, refresh, ugh, still only ten views? “What is wrong with people? This is hilarious! I shared to Facebook, but it’s been an hour. It’s way down peoples feeds. I’d better post it again. I know they don’t want to miss my Saturday post.”

The ‘I’m Writing a Book‘ Blogger: Occasionally I may fall into this category too, but others don’t just fall into this category, they burst right out of it. Repeatedly. What’s that? You’re a blogger and you’re writing a book? I’ve never heard of such a thing! Could you please mention it on your blog, daily, so we never forget? And please, by all means, tweet about it too. What’s that? It’s your first novel and you’re on the twenty-seventh revision so you can get it just right before sending to a publisher. Please tell us more!

The Music Blogger: Yes, we get that you know more music than us and all of your friends. No, we don’t want to hear the ‘B side’ of Vanilla Ice’s little known folk rock album released just last year.

The Blogging Expert Blogger: What? You have ten thousand followers? Yes, please write another post about Search Engine Optimization so I get more views on my blog. And by all means, make it a list of 99 Ways To…

The Fashion Blogger: Pictures of new clothes you’re buying? I can’t get enough! You’re so chic and your lifestyle is so glamorous! What?!!? You have an Instagram with millions more pictures of you in clothes? Be still my beating heart! Why aren’t there guy fashion blogs?

The Mommy Blogger: You have kids and they’re funny and you write stories about their adorable antics? How unique! You should write a book! And please add in how you’re trying to lose the baby weight and tell us about your workout routine!

Well, which stereotype are you? Are there stereotypes I missed? Put your suggestions in the comments and have a great Saturday! ~Phil

You missed out information bloggers like myself. I don’t think information is the right word, but I wrote a blog post this morning and I’ve used up all my creativity for today.

Anyway, we are deadly serious people, who believe that everybody else would benefit from reading the few facts we’ve been able to scrape together because we read books, or visit places, so we share them.

I have literally sat back after hitting publish and said to myself, ‘what is wrong with people, that post was hilarious’, so I am cracking up right now. I think of myself as writing about the things I’ve learned from being ill and applying those lessons to my ‘civilian’ life, as it were. There is a category of blogger that writes solely about their illness. So, if you feel mean with this list then think how mean I feel when I’m saying in my head, ‘yeah we get it you’re sick’, after reading some of them. I’m going to hell, Phil. Going to hell, I tell ya!

That’s the great thing about blogging though. I love that it’s a “just me” kind of thing. In the end our blogs are us and we should write what makes us happy, even if some jerk humor blogger makes fun of us.

I’d be the humor blogger. I don’t fall in to any of those other stereotypes. More stereotypes:

The blogging awards blogger: Always posting about blogging awards they’ve won, nominating other bloggers for awards and inviting bloggers to nominate other bloggers.

The ‘I’m too busy to blog’ blogger: They don’t post much anymore but once a month or so they pop up to say they’re sorry for not blogging but they’ve just been so busy lately.

The ‘sorry not sorry’ blogger: They write a blog post that offends someone and the next day they write a blog saying “I’m sorry you were so sensitive that you were offended by what I said and that you’re too stupid to understand what I meant by it.”

The ‘social media is the devil’ blogger: They talk about how they’ve quit social media and it’s the best thing they ever did. They’ve realized you’re a pathetic human being if if you enjoy getting likes and follows on Facebook, if you have to post all the details of and pictures of your life on Facebook. Meanwhile they’re tracking likes and follows on their blog and posting more details about their life there than anyone ever does on Facebook.

The vague blogger: They post about something that’s upsetting or angering them but you don’t know what the hell they’re talking about because they don’t explain the situation. I’ve been guilty of that myself.

The humblebragging blogger: They post about how many posts they’ve written, how many likes, follows, views, visitors and comments they’ve gotten but of course they just want to say how surprised they are that their blog took off so quickly and thank all their readers and followers for making this all possible and giving them this amazing opportunity.

I love the rant blogger. No subject too small to rant about.It is required that a lot of four letter words need to be part of the rant. In the about page there is usually a detailed discussion of some health issue that the rant blogger is fighting. (you know, hangnail etc.)

I guess I could fall into the mommy category excepting on those days my sweet little cherubs decide the bath water should be on the other side of the tub causing a river to appear from one floor to next, in which case I hope I’m funny.

That’s awesome! If you fall on your face, just pick yourself up, learn from your experience and do it again! My first self-published book was far from perfect, but I’m getting better every time. What’s your book about?

I spent exactly 365 days as a boot buyer in a country western company. I hate all things country and love my stilettos. Needless to say I was an outcast. I only took the job for health insurance bc of a pending lumpectomy. Its about all my experiences.

If I say “humor blogger” does that mean I’m admitting that I think I’m funny? Because I really try to avoid that. You know, so when I’m not funny, nobody thinks anything of it, but if I am funny it looks effortless, insouciant.

https://g.co/kgs/mD5TvT I know there’s more than 3 here but the fashion blogger, and blogging expert blogger and mommy blogger don’t count ok…And I’m trying to be a funny music blogger who maybe one day will want to write a book

Well..I am sure I can fit at least 2/3 of them and some…lol…Maybe I should unleash my thoughts about the ever young Rod….No! Might get censored and thrown out of WP…Has anyone ever got banned or put on the WP naughty chair ???? Just a thought …ha ha

Yeah, I think I’m guilty for being categorized under most of them. It kind of happened that I started with being a funny post writer, then a music blogger and then I realized that people have Youtube for that so then I moved on to a lifestyle blogger. Sucked at that. Now I’m back to being a so-called humor blogger. Loved your post!

Crap. I’m the “humor” blogger for sure. Hopefully I’ve not the “I’m writing a book” blogger yet, since I’ve gotten too caught up in humor blogging to get enough traction on the book (though I’m sure I’ll be plenty obnoxious we promotion when it gets closer to completion). So is that combination make it’s own type of blogger?